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Offers independent living skills training for individuals with disabilities. Offers the following courses: - Assistive technology training - Braille training - Independent living skills training - Personal assistant services: teaches individuals how to hire and manage in-home care assistants - Adult employment readiness - 12-week course offering job skills assessment, resume writing, financial literacy, and assistance finding work - Youth employment readiness: 18-week course offering job skills development - Older blind services - geared towards seniors with vision loss who are already trained in adaptive devices Also offers information and referral services, benefits counseling, and application assistance.
Offers a social rehabilitation program for adults with mental illness. Focuses on improving the individuals ability to care for themselves and function independently. Provides case management, skill-building groups, individual exercises, and support in community settings. Supports overall wellness including nutrition, physical fitness, and addiction recovery. Seeks to improve the following: - Interpersonal communication - Health maintenance - Symptom regulation - Peer interactions - Self-regulating behavior - Problem solving skills - Self care and hygiene - Use of public transportation - Money management - Cooking Note: Independence Center operates as a membership program. Membership requires that the individual has a persistent mental illness and Medicaid insurance to cover all fees. Members are encouraged to attend programs on a daily basis and contribute to the IC community.
Offers information and comprehensive services for individuals with disabilities including: - Screening for benefits programs - Healthcare plan support, information, and advocacy - In-home services - Job skills evaluations - Independent living skills training - Residential education and outreach programs for children with disabilities
Through the Intermittent CILA Program, adults with mild developmental disabilities live independently in a home or apartment, sometimes with one or more roommates. Services provided to these individuals are individualized and staff will provide training and assistance as needed with all aspects of living independently, including cooking and cleaning skills, transportation, assistance with medical needs, making and keeping appointments, grocery shopping, paying bills, and similar activities.
The Employment & Training Department offers services that include instruction in basic independent living skills, sheltered employment training, and preparation for placement in supportive and/or competitive employment for persons with developmental disabilities. Their various programs assist consumers in achieving their maximum independence level by increasing their earning capacity, self-esteem, and self-sufficiency.

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Homeless Employment Programs
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Independent Living Skills Instruction
'Life On My Own' independent living program that teaches, prepares and supports adults who want to live entirely on their own.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Provides services to individuals with severe disabilities so they can remain independent in their homes. Offers the following program options for independence: - Personal Assistant (PA): Provides assistance with household tasks, personal care and, with permission of a doctor, certain health care procedures. PAs are selected, employed, and supervised by individual customers. - Homemaker Services: Personal care provided by trained and professionally supervised personnel for customers who are unable to direct the services of a PA. Instruction and assistance in household management and self-care are also available. - Maintenance Home Health: Services provided through a treatment plan prescribed by a physician or other health care professional. Other services include nursing care and physical, occupational, and speech therapy. - Electronic Home Response: Emergency response system offered by hospitals and community service organizations. This rented signaling device provides 24-hour emergency coverage, permitting the individual to alert trained professionals at hospitals, fire departments, or police departments. - Home Delivered Meals: Provided to individuals who can feed themselves but are unable to prepare food. - Adult Day Care: The direct care and supervision of customers in a community-based setting to promote their social, physical, and emotional well-being. - Assistive Equipment: Devices or equipment either purchased or rented to increase an individual's independence and capability to perform household and personal care tasks at home. - Environmental Modification: Modifications in the home that help compensate for loss of ability, strength, mobility or sensation; increase safety in the home, and decrease dependence on direct assistance from others. - Respite Services: Temporary care for adults and children with disabilities aimed at relieving stress to families. Respite services may be provided for vacation, rest, errands, family crisis or emergency. Services may include personal assistant, homemaker or home health. Also provides specialized services for people with HIV/AIDS and/or traumatic brain injuries (TBI). The Community Reintegration Program helps individuals with disabilities who live in nursing homes move into community with the supports they need to live as independently as possible.
Impact Behavioral Health Partners provides Independent Living Skills Training and Support for individuals with severe mental illness.
Training programs that cover independent daily living skills such as use of electronics (e.g. smartphones, tablets), cooking, cleaning, laundry, using household appliances, managing financial and confidential documents, and independent travel skills.
The Chicago Lighthouse Adult Living Skills Program focuses on life skills training for adults who are blind or visually impaired with developmental disabilities. Program participants attend daily activities designed to develop self-sufficiency, increase independence, and help them actively participate in today's society. An individual service plan is developed for each participant to outline short-term and long-term goals.
Aspire - Careers and Living provides housing for older adults and people with disabilities to support an active and independent lifestyle.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Heuristic Healing, Inc. offers educational programming designed to improve or maintain the ability of the participants to live as independently as possible in the community.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
The Chicago Lighthouse's Youth Transition Program provides teens and young adults (ages 15 - 24) with the tools they need for independence. They host a variety of experiences designed for youth who intend to live independently, seek competitive employment, and attend a vocational training program or college upon graduation from high school. They work with each participant to address his or her individual needs and challenges.
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) - Portage Cragin Counseling Center's Journeys Program serves adults that are interested in building life and social skills through individual and group services. This program is staffed by social workers and counselors who work with each individual to personalize their goals, treatment plan, and participation in various group offerings.

Provides informational and educational programming targeted toward a consumer or a group of consumers with the intent to develop or increase the skills, knowledge and/or abilities required to live, work and play in the community.

Programs offered include self-advocacy and awareness, life skills training, braille training, TTY training, personal assistant information, interpreter referrals and equipment demonstration and loan.

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Assistive Technology Information
Assistive Technology Equipment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Braille Instruction

- Assists people with disabilities transition from a nursing home into the community.

- Prevents people with disabilities from entering a nursing home (nursing home deflection).

- Assists youth with disabilities as they transition from high school to adult life.

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Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Helps adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities develop and enhance daily adaptive living skills and economic self-sufficiency through out-of-home training designed to foster appropriate behavior, greater independence, and personal choice.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs

Provides peer support counseling, information and referral to services that help disabled individuals, skills training, advocacy for persons with disabilities and their families and disability awareness and leadership education. Working with individuals in their homes or in locations convenient to the individual.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Disease/Disability Registries

Blind Service staff provide a variety of services to individuals who are blind, visually impaired or Deaf/Blind to assist them in achieving self-sufficiency through obtaining competitive employment. Services include:

- Vocational rehabilitation.

- Provides instruction in independent living skills, communication strategies, Braille, adaptive equipment, assistive technology, and health and wellness.

- Orientation and Mobility Instructors providing instruction in skills, methods, and techniques to independently travel safely and effectively in various surroundings.

- Rehabilitation Counselors and Coordinators provide a wide variety of services necessary to assist the individual in obtaining their employment outcome goal.

Blind Service staff provide a variety of services to individuals who are blind, visually impaired or Deaf/Blind to assist them in achieving self-sufficiency through obtaining competitive employment. Services include:

- Vocational rehabilitation.

- Provides instruction in independent living skills, communication strategies, Braille, adaptive equipment, assistive technology, and health and wellness.

- Orientation and Mobility Instructors providing instruction in skills, methods, and techniques to independently travel safely and effectively in various surroundings.

- Rehabilitation Counselors and Coordinators provide a wide variety of services necessary to assist the individual in obtaining their employment outcome goal.

Provides informational and educational programming targeted toward a consumer or a group of consumers with the intent to develop or increase the skills, knowledge and/or abilities required to live, work and play in the community.

Programs offered include self-advocacy and awareness, life skills training, braille training, TTY training, personal assistant information, interpreter referrals and equipment demonstration and loan.

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Assistive Technology Information
Assistive Technology Equipment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Braille Instruction

Services include, case management, independent living skills training, financial literacy training, parent skills classes, counseling, and affordable supportive housing placement.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Financial Literacy Training
Homeless Permanent Supportive Housing
Parenting Skills Classes

Provides a wide variety of independent living services for individuals with disabilities with the objective of helping them to function more independently in family and community settings and to secure and maintain appropriate employment. Services may include information and referral services, referrals for attendant care, attendant recruitment and training programs, independent living skills training, assistance in meeting housing and transportation needs, peer counseling, transition from institutions into the community, deflection from institutional placement, transition from youth to adult services, and advice and guidance regarding legal rights and benefits eligibility.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Centers for Independent Living
Disability Rights Groups

Blind Service staff provide a variety of services to individuals who are blind, visually impaired or Deaf/Blind to assist them in achieving self-sufficiency through obtaining competitive employment. Services include:

- Vocational rehabilitation.

- Provides instruction in independent living skills, communication strategies, Braille, adaptive equipment, assistive technology, and health and wellness.

- Orientation and Mobility Instructors providing instruction in skills, methods, and techniques to independently travel safely and effectively in various surroundings.

- Rehabilitation Counselors and Coordinators provide a wide variety of services necessary to assist the individual in obtaining their employment outcome goal.

Empowers people with disabilities to attain new skills and techniques so they are able to participate in daily living, recreational/social opportunities, and vocational/volunteering activities. Services work to assist people in mastering skills they need to live independently, like accessing public transportation, managing a personal budget, promoting self-advocacy, teaching home-making skills, utilizing community services, and obtaining assistive devices and durable medical equipment.